Hey gang, I need some support here. I'm in the author review phase of ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies . In a chapter on LINQ, an editor wants me to change 'Thingy' to "a more concrete noun". Here's an example heading: Narrowing the thingys with a Select clause Wait a minute! This is the For Dummies...

So in researching another series I am writing I got a wild desire to do some Linq to SQL performance testing. So I whipped up a database table and populated it with data and went about writing some code. What you'll see in the code is 4 tests one with a fairly standard Linq query and a loop through the...

It's actually pretty easy and user friendly to obtain the value of the identity column using LINQ. After you create your object and insert it on submit, you can call the identity column's property on your object. For instance: Dim db As New BlogDataContext() db.BlogPosts.InsertOnSubmit(MyPost) db.SubmitChanges...